John Field lives and works in the Silicon Valley in California. His Chemical Engineering education prepared him for a career oriented to Micro-electronics and fabrication technologies. After college, John went into the semiconductor industry taking on a number of increasingly responsible roles. He started as an engineer working in semiconductor fabrication, then moved into Product Line management for equipment OEM's and eventually had several Vice President roles in Sales and Marketing. This experience was with industry leaders such as Lam Research, Applied Materials and Asyst Technologies (later acquired by Brooks Automation). After leading two start-ups to corporate acquisitions, John began consulting with companies helping them with business planning and marketing. He now runs the Silicon Valley region for ULVAC. He is responsible for working with industry leading companies to establish relationships that leverage ULVAC's technology in Semiconductor, Display, Solid State Battery, MEMs and other technologies. ULVAC is a Japan based company, with global operations, and the company is known as a leader in all aspects of vacuum processing. https://www.ulvac.com/.

ULVAC, Inc. (Headquarter located in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan) is a global leader with the most comprehensive portfolio of vacuum technologies in the world. ULVAC has been continuously developing manufacturing solutions in applications of thin film battery, power device, non-volatile memory, and PZT piezoelectric MEMS sensor which are all key elements for the IoT world.